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Use for: Lindens

• A plant genus (of the family Tiliaceae) of trees that are native in temperate regions and often planted as shade trees, that are distinguished by having cordate leaves, a winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, indehiscent fruit with one or two seeds, and soft easily carved wood, and that have a strong hybridizing tendency. A few are outstanding as ornamental and shade trees.

• a family of flowering plants of mostly perennial herbaceous plants. The members are cosmopolitan in distribution but native primarily to northern cold and temperate regions. Members of the family have leaves that characteristically alternate along the stem and are sometimes deeply lobed or form rosettes.

• a genus (of the family Saxifragaceae) of usually perennial herbs of diverse habit of arctic and temperate regions having pentamerous often showy flowers with a 2-celled ovary followed by a 2-beaked follicle and often having basal tufted leaves

• a family of mostly herbaceous plants having chiefly opposite or whorled leaves and flowers with one-seeded carpels that separate individually from a central column when ripe

Use for: geranium

• a genus of southern African herbs of the Acanthaceae family with showy flowers of usually red, pink, or white distinguished by a spurred calyx and irregular corolla

• a very large family of highly specialized perennial herbaceous monocotyledonous plants. Plants are distributed throughout the world, especially in wet tropics.
• commonly known as the orchid family

• A family of trees and shrubshaving the staminate flowers in cymose heads or drooping aments and pistillate flowers with an urn-shaped to oblong perianth that occur singly or in clusters and are succeeded by one-seeded nuts

Use for: oak

• A genus of ornamental and timber trees and shrubs in the beech family (Fagaceae), distributed throughout the north temperate zone and at high altitudes in the tropics

• a family of shrubs and trees (order Ranales), having bisexual flowers, stamens arranged spirally, and numerous simple pistils spirally arranged on an elongated axis

Use for: Magnola

• A plant genus of trees and shrubs of the family Magnoliaceae native to North and South America, the Himalayas, and East Asia. They are valued for their large and fragrant white, yellow, pink, or purple flowers and frequently handsome leaves and unusual fruits. Some are important garden ornamentals; others are local timber sources.